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Jul, 2016

Warriors & Wildcats Report no. 44 now posted

By: Rich-Perelman | Tags: Warriors & Wildcats Report no. 44 | Comments: 0

[Posted July 1, 2016] Summertime! Although Uni’s Class of 2016 has departed, there is still a lot going on, as noted in issue 44 of the Warriors & Wildcats Report: Check out ten new Chieftains ~ now a total of 27 years online! Video highlights of the Kampmann-Patton Honors Luncheon also online! Reunions coming up for the classes of 1976, 1986 and 1954! Highlights of the fall football and basketball schedules! Sad news of Warriors who have passed: Morley Moran, Sylvia Rhodes Sherwood and Len Hill. Click here to get […]

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Jun, 2016

Ten more Chieftains now online, now 27 in all!

By: Rich-Perelman | Tags: Chieftain, Yearbooks | Comments: 0

[Posted June 29, 2016] Ten more editions of the University High School “Chieftains” between 1937 and 1951 are now posted on the UHEF.org Web site, and available for viewing here. You can take a look at Uni as it was in 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1949 and 1951. Pictured above: Cover of the 1941 Chieftain (Photo courtesy UHEF) Because of the nationwide paper drive during World War II, there were no yearbooks for 1943 and 1944, sadly creating a gap in the documentation of the graduating classes […]

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Jun, 2016

Kampmann-Patton Honors Luncheon highlights video now available!

By: Rich-Perelman | Tags: Kampmann-Patton Honors Luncheon | Comments: 0

[Posted June 25, 2016] If you weren’t one of the nearly 150 attendees at the Kampmann-Patton Honors Luncheon at Uni’s South Gym on May 15, you can get a glimpse of the program from a new video from the Uni Hi Education Foundation. Produced by ImagePeople for the UHEF, the 2:45 video includes snippets of the formal program, including comments by Harvey Stein ‘61, Heidi Howell ‘80, Steve Baum ‘69, Mel Patton biographer Larry Booth and Coach Dick Kampmann. In addition are tributes to Coach K from former students and […]

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Jun, 2016

Check out the All-Classes Picnic and Car Show photo album!

By: Rich-Perelman | Tags: All-Classes Picnic & Car Show, Elliott Alper | Comments: 0

[Posted June 19, 2016] We’ve had plenty of requests for more pictures of last month’s All-Classes Picnic and Car Show at Uni. Happily, we have more to show you! Elliott Alper was busy snapping photos at the event and we’ve compiled and we’ve compiled some of his best shots into a PDF photo album here. He writes: “I’m Elliott Alper and graduated Emerson Junior High School on June 20,1971 and went on to Fairfax High School (graduated in 1974). “I knew about University High School, but was living in the […]

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Jun, 2016

Nine new Chieftains now online!

By: Rich-Perelman | Tags: | Comments: 0

[Posted June 18, 2016] Nine additional editions of the University High School “Chieftains” between 1929 and 1965 are now posted on the UHEF.org Web site, and available for viewing here. You can take a look at Uni as it was in 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1950 and 1965. Pictured above: Cover of the 1965 Chieftain (Photo courtesy UHEF) Also available on the site is a unique scrapbook of Uni student and faculty involvement in World War II. This notebook carefully logged the participation, theater and press clippings […]

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Jun, 2016

Warriors & Wildcats Report no. 43 now posted

By: Rich-Perelman | Tags: Warriors & Wildcats Report, Chieftain, cheerleaders | Comments: 0

[Posted June 15, 2016] Uni graduated the Class of 2016, but memories have also come alive for nine classes whose Chieftains are now online! Get all the details in the new issue 43 of the Warriors & Wildcats Report: Check out nine new Chieftains posted from 1929-30-31-32-33-35-36-50 and ’65! Commencement salute to the Class of 2016 from Principal Eric Davidson! The magic of Coach K from a trackman recruited from basketball class! Reunions coming up for the classes of 1961, 1976, 1986 and 1954! Who were Uni’s first female cheerleaders? […]

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Jun, 2016

Graduation Ceremonies held for the Class of 2016

By: Rich-Perelman | Tags: Eric Davidson, Graduation | Comments: 0

[Posted June 10, 2016] A festive commencement ceremony was held for 378 members of the Class of 2016 on June 10, on the field at Kampmann Stadium. Uni Principal Eric Davidson saluted the graduates with the following address: “Families, friends, and members of the Class of 2016: “We can change the world. It won’t be one or some of you that will make the change. It will take all of us to heal the disease of complacency that infects us all. No matter the color of our skin, the language […]

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Jun, 2016

Did you know Gidget – on-screen and off – went to Uni?

By: Rich-Perelman | Tags: Gidget, Sandra Dee, Kathy Kohner, Frederik Kohner | Comments: 0

[Posted June 3, 2016] For more than four decades, the female side of the Southern California surf culture was epitomized in the story of “Gidget.” In fact, the story of Gidget – in print and on the silver screen – is all about Uni! Gidget, a teenage girl who loves to surf, was written about Kathy Kohner ‘58, first in the 1957 novel, Gidget, The Little Girl With Big Ideas. The author was none other than her father, well-known screenwriter Frederick Kohner, who went on to write eight “Gidget” novels […]

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Jun, 2016

Warriors & Wildcats Report no. 42 now posted

By: Rich-Perelman | Tags: Warriors & Wildcats Report; Gidget; Kathy Kohner; Sandra Dee | Comments: 0

[Posted June 1, 2016] June is not just for graduation, but also for reunions, with all the details in the new issue 42 of the Warriors & Wildcats Report: Classes of Summer 1956, 2006 and Winter 1961 all planning June reunions! Five winners named for Community Service, Mednick and Moskowitz scholarships! More than faces on a plaque: Dick Kampmann, Mel Patton and Angus Cavanaugh! Class of ’54 announces its 62-year (!) reunion for October! Remember Gidget? Both the real-life and first screen Gidgets went to Uni! Click here to get […]

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May, 2016

UHEF Announces Five Recipients of Annual Scholarship Awards

By: Rich-Perelman | Tags: Mary Qualls, Rosa Devora Roman, Alexandra Strong, Reina Flores, Thelma Culverson, Jack Moskowitz Award, Sharon Mednick Award | Comments: 0

[Posted May 31, 2016] One of the most important benefits of giving to the Uni Hi Education Foundation is seeing your funds at work to help young people succeed. Each year, the UHEF makes direct contributions to deserving students through three scholarship awards: Outstanding Community Service Award: This is a $1,000 cash award, normally offered to one winner. For 2016, however, the seven submitted essays documented such strong service from three entrants that two full scholarships and a $500 Honorable Mention award were made. The two recipients of the full […]

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